Celeb News Aggregate
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The race for the Palme d'Or--the top film prize at a 2004 Cannes festival--is heating up and with director Quentin Tarantino heading the jury, movie industryites are prepared for just about anything. Also: Michael Jackson Total Film magazine poll The Kelsey Grammer Sketch Show Bill Cosby Adam Sandler The Longest Yard Sammy Reese Witherspoon Clive Owen Benicio Del Toro Sin City
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Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin was hospitalized Saturday for an undisclosed ailment and is in stable condition. Also: Bobby Brown Madonna Pierce Brosnan Kevin Smith Arnold Schwarzenegger Jack Valenti The Love Boat Aaron Spelling David Permut Rachel Hunter Burt Reynolds Cloud Nine
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Superior Court Judge Loren McMaster ruled Monday that by borrowing more than $4.5 million to finance his run for governor in last October's recall election, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had broken a state law restricting candidates from accepting personal loans of more than $100,000 for their campaigns and would therefore have to repay the money. Also: Halle Berry Faith Evan Todd Russaw Madonna Guy Ritchie Swept Away Vincent D'Onofrio Kelly Osbourne Mandy Moore Nich Lachey Jessica Simpson Barbra Streisand Adam Sandler
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Tom Green and Sylvester Stallone get nominated for Razzies for the worst films of the year.
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News Roundup: Nov. 11 George Harrison Mick Jagger Sam Donaldson Billy Crudup
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News Roundup: July 26, 2001
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 23, 2000 -- "Scream 3" and "Titus" haven't hit the shelves of video stores yet, but if you stop off at the market on your way home today, you might be able to buy them. But bring your inheritance, because they'll probably cost you six figures.
The horror hit and the Shakespearean tragedy are just two of the roughly 350 movies that are up for grabs (that is, if you happen to be an overseas film distributor) at the market -- the American Film Market, that is -- the annual international trade show for the motion picture industry, running here today through March 1. Founded in 1981, the AFM is now the largest movie market in the world, and organizers say about $400 million in licensing deals will be inked in the coming week.
The AFM isn't a film festival -- there are no awards, and don't expect to see Sundance stalwarts such as Ben Affleck and Steve
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Jumping off cliffs and hanging from high altitude might get you an award. Stunt people from such films as Gladiator and Charlie's Angels were big winners in the first World Stunt Awards, held Sunday. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Arnold Schwarzenegger was honored as best-action movie star. "You have made me shine on the screen," he said. "You made me look heroic." MI:2 director John Woo won for best-action director, but he said he was not the one "jumping off a motorcycle or driving 150 feet through the air."
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Meet the captain of the next Star Trek frontier: Scott Bakula.
A veteran sci-fi actor, Bakula (TV's Quantum Leap) will play Capt. Jonathan Archer in the fourth spin-off of the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise.
Bakula follows in the formidable shoes of William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew as leader of a Federation starship boldly going where no one else has gone.
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 1, 2000 -- Christopher Reeve just can't catch a break these days. Except, that is, when he's breaking his leg.
The paraplegic "Superman" star fell and severely broke his left leg last week while undergoing physical therapy aimed at enabling him to walk again. He was rushed into surgery and then spent five days hospitalized.
It's not the kind of scandal-fueld story that we usually cull from the weekly tabloids, but we felt Reeve's plight and his brave battle against the odds were worth noting.
Now, on to the juicy stuff from this week's supermarket journalism offerings:
1. "Mooing Saves Andy Williams' Voice" (Globe, p. 22) What a drag it is gettin' old. Crooner Andy Williams reveals the secret behind his new musical comeback. He gets his vocal cords in shape by making cow noises. "I do a little exercise now. I do some 'moo, moo.' It sort
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HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 31, 2000 -- After more than 35 years, big-screen actor Richard Dreyfuss is returning to a TV series. It's still up in the air whether the "Mr. Holland’s Opus" star will appear in a sitcom or a drama, but the veteran actor has inked a deal with CBS to develop and star in primetime show for the 2001-02 season.
Dreyfuss made a big splash back in April when he appeared in "Fail Safe," in which he starred as the U.S. president, drawing critical praise for his performance. He last appeared in a TV series for NBC in 1964-'65 in the sitcom "Karen."
He later went on to make his mark on the big screen, eventually becoming the youngest actor at 29 to win the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance in "The Goodbye Girl."
Dreyfuss’s other big-screen credits include the "Stakeout" flicks and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills." He’s currently appearing in the
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HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 8, 2000 - -- So who cares about Kathie Lee now that she’s off the tube? Answer: The National Enquirer, of course.
In a week seemingly devoid of major dirt, the tab has devoted a centerfold piece covering the post-talk show life of perky Kathie Lee.
And this is what the Enquirer has to tell us: 1) Kathie Lee spent three weeks on a cruise with hubby Frank and kiddies Cody and Cassidy vacationing to France. 2) During the trip, Kathie Lee and Frank has rediscovered their love for each other. And 3) Kathie Lee is happy.
A slow week, indeed.
And now, it is time for other tab reports that really matter:
1. "Little Hercules -- Believe It or Not, Muscle Kid Is Just Seven Years Old!" (Globe, p. 46) And yes, there’s even a photo of a kid with rippling muscles and a six pack to prove it –- except, to us at least, it looks a lot like the kid’
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Well, the February sweeps are finally over.
Once the remainder of NBC's "10th Kingdom" is flushed from the system, it will all be just a distant memory. Regis Philbin won, if you were scoring along at home. If the February sweeps were like network TV's playoffs, Regis was Michael Jordan -- only shorter and dressed like a bootlegger from the 1920s.
The good news? Now that the quarter-hour numbers don't mean as much to the bean counters, you might find a few higher-quality shows on the air -- not that Fox's "Robbie Knievel: Head On Train Jump" wasn't "high quality" as head on train jumps go. ... But, um ... Hey, everybody, let's get ready for those mid-season replacements!
-- Right after HBO's "The Sopranos" airs today at 8 p.m. (this is old news, but yes, the series really is as good as everybody says it is), stay tuned for "If T
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HOLLYWOOD, June 15, 2000 -- The world may be safe yet for another "Saturday Night Live" knock-off flick. Word today is that Mike Myers is being lured back to the botched "Dieter" project by promises of a better script (not to mention an assist from peacemaker Steven Spielberg).
Myers walked on the film last month and was subsequently sued by Universal Pictures last week.
"Dieter" is based on Myers' old "SNL" sketch "Sprockets."
Jim Carrey HANG UP: Jim Carrey is out of Joel Schumacher's would-be gritty "Phone Booth." Carrey is the second star to bail, after Will Smith.
FIFTEEN MINUTES STILL COUNTING ...: Fox-rejected Jennifer Love Hewitt will costar with Sigourney Weaver and Gene Hackman in "The Breakers," about a wacky mom (Weaver) and daughter (Hewitt) who con residents of a Florida resort.
CLASH OF THE TITANS: Burt Reynolds and Sylvester St
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 4, 2000 -- Maybe it was that live broadcast of "E.R." Or perhaps the save-the-world-from-nuclear-holocaust heroics in "The Peacemaker."
Whichever, big-screen George Clooney is set to produce a live small-screen staging of the Cold War drama "Fail Safe" on CBS on April 9. Based on the 1962 novel (released at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis), the story focuses on a man's Tom Clancy-style struggle to save the world from total annihilation. (Henry Fonda starred in the 1964 theatrical version.)
Clooney's production will emanate from two soundstages on the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, Calif. It'll be broadcast in black-and-white -- the better to capture the mood of (yea!) bleak paranoia.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Frears ("Dangerous Liaisons") is close to inking a deal to direct the play. Clooney's "E.R." cohor
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 18, 2000 -- It's amazing what a $171 million blockbuster can do for your career. A few years ago, Carrie-Anne Moss was toiling in straight-to-video movies and TV shows such as "Models Inc." This week, she's under contract for two upcoming sequels to "The Matrix."
Word comes today from Variety that Canadian-born Moss will reprise the character of Trinity -- a role in which she was so good, she even had us believing that Keanu Reeves was a messianic hero.
Meanwhile, Moss also co-stars with Tom Sizemore and Val Kilmer in the upcoming "Red Planet:; with Burt Reynolds in "The Crew"; and with Guy Pearce in "Memento," which debuts next month at Cannes.
As they say, a rolling Moss gathers no ... oh, forget it.
DECONSTRUCTING HAIRY: Fresh from his self-deprecating roles as a ponytail-wearing, New Age-swishy guy in "High Fidelity" and hi